Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cutting our way with machete hatchets through dense underbrush, now wading through water up to our knees, with the ever-present fear of the moccasin snake, whose bite is more deadly than that of the rattler, we made our way into the heart of a comparatively unknown region...
...islands in an ocean, and rise in the midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during the rainy season in the summer...
Once the staid recorders of fires, parades, baby-shows and ship launchings, newsreel photographers are now famed for the risks they take. Three weeks before his death, Newsreeler Traub went down in the submarine 54. In a bathing suit, with water up to his neck, with his camera mounted near the engineroom ceiling, he photographed the crew escaping one by one with "artificial lungs" (TIME Feb. 18). The device was a success, but not for Traub. He stayed where he was until the U. S. S. Mallard on the surface pumped the submarine full of air at high pressure, bringing...
...slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most inglorious one; indeed, worse than driving geese to water," but at least it kept him near to the life of the sea and took care of his Manhattan houseful of wife and nondescript children...
...they contain germs caught from the hen or absorbed through the shell pores; 2) they lose water by evaporation through the shell, a condition which helps break down the membrane between yellow and white; 3) they are kept at a temperature too high, which causes chemical reactions, if not the formation of embryos; .4) most important and only newly discovered, the alkalinity of white and yolk has increased...